I Steal the Ancestors' Sacrifices to Nourish Myself-Chapter 9: Ultimate Metamorphosis, Advancing to Stone-Breaker
The rain kept pouring.
Floodwaters roared like a muddy dragon surging from numerous mountain passes, stirring up massive waves that battered the mountain bodies.
Tribesmen stood by the shore, attempting to recreate scenes of capturing Heluo Fish.
Within the tribe, news of ancestral spirits manifesting had spread through all the caves, greatly improving the atmosphere.
From young learners starting with the fist technique to Stone-Breaking Martial Artists practicing for decades, everyone was cultivating the improved Kui Ox Fist bestowed by the ancestors.
Shen Can was no exception.
Huo Xian specially permitted him to leave the Ancestral Temple to learn the improved fist technique and then return.
After pretending to train for two days, Shen Can felt his spirits mostly recovered.
The night was deep, the rain outside the cave pattered relentlessly.
[Continue the derivation of Kui Ox Thunder Sound.]
At the end of the last derivation, it was revealed that the transformation of Kui Ox Fist into Thunder Sound held even greater mysteries.
Moreover, the top-grade level of Kui Ox Fist could only engage eighty percent of the muscles and bones throughout the body; Shen Can felt it was still far from perfection.
Inside the Three-legged Small Tripod Cauldron, a shadow began to move.
[With practicing the fist technique one hundred and fifty times, you have finally opened all seven apertures, no longer ignorant.]
[A year later, Thunder Sound transformed into Double Sound.] 𝒻𝑟ℯℯ𝑤𝑒𝑏𝑛𝘰𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝒸𝑜𝘮
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[Thirty years later, Thunder Sound evolved into Seven Sounds.]
[Another twenty years later, Thunder Sound transformed into Eight Sounds.]
[After the Kui Ox Eight Sounds, you felt your head turned into stone again, losing all sense of direction. Instantly, twenty more years passed, and you transformed into an ox again.]
[Moo, moo, moo]
Inside the Three-legged Small Tripod Cauldron, the shadow kept mooing continuously, yet its hands never ceased, repeatedly performing the Kui Ox Fist with perseverance.
Finally, during a new round of the fist technique exhibition, the Thunder Sound resounded once more, seven, eight, nine...
The ninth Thunder Sound echoed, causing the shadow executing the fist technique to shudder, a profound mystery flooding straight to the Celestial Spirit.
[Another thirty years, through your stubborn, almost foolish persistence in cultivation, the ninth echo of Kui Ox Thunder Sound was unleashed.]
[Kui Ox Nine Sounds, Kui Fist at its pinnacle, capable of refining entire body of flesh, muscles, bones, and internal organs.]
[Congratulations, stubborn one, on grasping the auxiliary cultivation divine ability ’All Transformations Return to One’]
On the stone bed, Shen Can opened his eyes.
Sacrificial Master: Shen Can
Martial Arts Realm: Non-tiered.
Sacrificial Artifact: Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron
Quenching Technique: Kui Ox Fist (Top-Grade)
Witchcraft Path: Blazing Flame Division Witch Doctor Technique (Inferior), Witchcraft (None)
Cultivation Technique: None
Martial Arts Divine Technique: All Transformations Return to One
Lifespan: 15
[All Transformations Return to One: Allows the Sacrificial Master to perfectly refine and absorb daily cultivation resources, possessing the effect of assimilating myriad streams and accumulating from minimal gains.]
A day later, after having three hearty meals of meat, Shen Can felt the advantages of ’All Transformations Return to One.’
This divine ability was simply too useful.
While assisting in the cultivation of Kui Ox Fist, any meat consumed was perfectly transformed into personal strength enhancement.
Not only was there no waste, but Shen Can even picked up some dry leaves in the tribe and ate them, resulting in transformation.
Any cultivation resource that entered his stomach had to be squeezed for value, yielding nothing but dry husks.
Under these circumstances, Shen Can felt that even if he only ate ordinary Wild Beast meat, he could advance to become a Martial Artist; it was merely a matter of time.
Grasping a frog and squeezing out its oil exemplified the idea of assimilating myriad streams.
The cultivation paths of Stone-Breaking Realm and Mountain Opening Realm were completely open to him now; the tribesmen needed to soak in beast blood, but he no longer required this.
As for the Celestial Vein Realm, it seemed not so difficult anymore.
The further ’All Transformations Return to One’ progressed, the greater its auxiliary effects became.
Accumulating current resources to achieve higher-level leaps.
The reason Blazing Flame Division only had one Celestial Vein Martial Artist was mainly due to the scarcity of Tier Three Wild Beasts.
Tier Two Wild Beasts, as long as they weren’t troublesome fellows, could easily be dragged back to the tribe with the concerted efforts of Stone-Breaking Realm Martial Artists.
However, for Tier Three Wild Beasts, relying on Tier Two Mountain-Opening Realm Martial Artists to concentrate firepower considerably reduced the success rate.
Moreover, the tribe’s hunts for Tier Three Wild Beasts relied heavily on luck.
Such was the smallness of Blazing Flame Tribe compared to Upper Huang Tribe, where several Celestial Vein Realm Martial Artists could roam the great wilderness nearby, specifically scouting for Tier Three Wild Beasts.
Wild Beasts also had territorial distinctions within their groups, fighting amongst themselves.
Roaming aimed to find elderly or injured Tier Three Wild Beasts; once spotted, manpower would be organized for hunting.
Blazing Flame Tribe only had Clan Master Huo Chang with Celestial Veins, naturally lacking ways to roam outside.
Whether they could successfully hunt Tier Three Wild Beasts depended somewhat on luck.
But luck was such a thing that you might not encounter even once in decades.
Shen Can did not believe the tribe would deliberately hunt a Tier Three Wild Beast for him. Even his ancestors did not possess such great fortune; whether he could taste such luxury relied entirely on luck.
Thus, obtaining resources from Tier Three Wild Beasts was out of the question.
That was just Tier Three Wild Beasts. At Tier Four, Tier Five... relying on numbers to hunt them became increasingly impossible.
However, with this Divine Power, as long as he could perfectly refine existing resources, he could rely on Tier Two, or even a large number of Tier One Wild Beasts, to nourish himself and advance to become a Celestial Vein Realm Martial Artist through perfect transformation.
With this gathering method akin to piecing together a magnificent cloak.
With the perfect Kui Ox Fist combined with auxiliary cultivation divine techniques, Shen Can was left with no other thoughts, squatting in the Ancestral Temple just waiting to eat.
A bowl brimming with beast meat was dished out by Huo Xian.
Seeing Shen Can, who remained short despite daily practice of the fists, Huo Xian patted his shoulder, "Eat more, your body is still somewhat frail."
In the following ten days, activity inside the various caves of the tribe did not stop, and the torrential rain outside became something Shen Can subconsciously forgot.
Inside the East Ear Cave of the Ancestral Temple.
After finishing his punches, Shen Can stood motionless.
Feeling the hot streams flowing throughout his body, Shen Can’s eyes shone brightly.
He had advanced, and was very hungry, wanting more food.
Looking again at his physique, he had grown taller, but compared to the burly bears of the tribe, he was still far behind.
"Crack!"
He reached for the Black Elemental Stone placed inside the cave, strength surging into his right hand.
The part of the Black Elemental Stone held was directly crushed by immense force, surprisingly.
A corner of the meter-high Black Elemental Stone was suddenly cracked by his grip, a fissure running through it.
The tribe’s test of a Stone-Breaking Realm Martial Artist’s fist power was always a direct punch.
Shen Can wasn’t this violent. The Stone-Breaker and Mountain Opening Realm did not have distinct boundaries, both highlighting the increase in personal strength.
Soaking in Tier Two beast blood was more like increasing energy to the limit, using beast blood to break open this bottleneck and once again raise the improvement ceiling.
For him, he had no bottleneck barrier.
As long as he ate and ate, he could naturally become a Mountain-Opening Realm Martial Artist.
Sacrificial Master: Shen Can
Martial Arts Realm: Stone-Breaking Realm (Power of One Wilderness)
Sacrificial Artifact: Sacrificial Tripod Cauldron
Quenching Technique: Kui Ox Fist (Top-Grade)
...
He had been busy during this time advancing to become a martial artist, and the tribespeople had all introduced themselves to the improved Kui Ox Fist, with overall result being decent.
Why was Shen Can so aware.
Because...
Inside the East Ear Cave.
Several Beast Hide Scrolls were spread before him.
One scroll had an embossed map of the improved Kui Ox Fist.
A list of the tribe’s names.
Shen Can glanced at it, finding only two people sharing his name, both born during the mountain’s fireside.
The list was dense with names and corresponding images.
As for the images, they largely reflected each individual’s characteristics.
A total of one hundred thirty-three people, with twenty-seven newly added, Ayu’s name was at the top of the additions.
These were the tribesmen deemed likely to become Stone-Breaking Realm Martial Artists.
Since the appearance of the newly improved fist technique, numbers had increased by one-fifth now.
Everyone in the tribe who felt capable would come to Huo Xian to register, then wait for beast blood to queue.
"Write down Huo Xun’s name, he’s over forty, and if he can ascend to become a martial artist, it would be thanks to our ancestors."
Huo Xian instructed Shen Can, constantly sighing though.
The ancestors’ manifestation was nice, but the current situation was really not pleasing.
There was no beast blood.
Heavy rains pouring down, nowhere near the tribe would hold prey.
Waiting for the rain to stop, those evading the floods would be the starving and even more ferocious Wild Beasts.
Not to mention, after the rain there were sure to be Plague Insects, which were the real crisis for the tribe.
To martial artists, Plague Insects were troublesome, let alone the old, frail, women, and children of the tribe. Once the Plague Insects spread contagiously, the entire tribe could fall into a deathly silence.
Actually, during these few idle days, Shen Can had already been reading about witchcraft to prevent Plague Insects.
Plague Insects were also a kind of Great Wilderness Disaster Beast, once spread, they could cover the sky and earth.
After releasing their Plague Liquid, people’s bodies would swell with Plague Blisters, then their intestines decay, becoming breeding grounds for Plague Insects.
In crisis, he saw opportunity.
The plague treated all equally, if properly prepared, it could turn into an opportunity for the Blazing Flame Tribe to expand.
Whenever the tribe strengthens, the ancestors could enjoy better meals.
Respecting the ancestors, he was the most sincere.
